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Vanilla Forums

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Vanilla is a open-source forum hosting application that is fully customizable. Vanilla has a business model similar to Wordpress. They have vanillaforums.org for open source, free download/use, and vanillaforums.com as a hosted service, but with up-sells for things like domain name mapping, removal of ads, and single sign-on integrations.

Vanilla was a Techstars 2009 company.

Milestones

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  Vanilla Forums added John Stokes as Board Member. (12/17/09)
  Posted 4/27/10 at 4:11pm
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  Vanilla Forums added Mark O'Sullivan as CEO.
  Posted 1/18/10 at 11:46am
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  Vanilla Forums received $485k (C$500k) in Series A funding. (1/19/10)
  Posted 1/19/10 at 9:02pm via businesswire.com
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  Vanilla Forums received $12k in Seed funding. (8/6/09)
  Posted 8/6/09 at 1:20pm via techcrunch.com
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  Vanilla Forums — Vanilla Forums receives $500,000 (CAD) Round A fundin (1/18/10)
  Posted 1/19/10 at 8:59pm via techcrunch.com

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: Vanilla Forums Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 7/24/10

Sources

1. TechStars Incubator Hatches 10 New Companies (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Vanilla Forums Receives $500,000 (CAD) Round A Funding for Its Innovative, Open Source Community Forum Software (businesswire.com) [edit]
Vanilla Forums Raises $500,000 For Open-Source Forum Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]